How to disable text selection and clipboard overrides?

I find what opencode does with text selection and clipboard in my terminal extremely disruptive for my work process.

I would like to be able to use my OS and terminal facilities directly to select and copy from opencode, ideally, with full scrollback buffer for longer texts.

Is there an option to disable the current behavior?

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

Option to not use alternate (fullscreen) screen mode #106: Option to not use alternate (fullscreen) screen mode - requests the ability to not use alternate screen mode to allow users to use their terminal emulator's scrolling, searching, and copying functionality
feat: Copy Mode for OpenCode #2755: feat: Copy Mode for OpenCode - comprehensive request for better text selection and copying functionality, addressing the limitations of current mouse-dependent selection
Add a /copy command to copy latest message (or allow scrolling while selecting text) #2118: Add a /copy command to copy latest message (or allow scrolling while selecting text) - specifically mentions the auto-copy behavior being annoying and requests better text selection controls
Mouse text selection has unexpected behavior in terminal #1210: Mouse text selection has unexpected behavior in terminal - addresses issues with current text selection behavior differing from standard terminal applications like vim, tmux, and less

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

@agladysh

@agladysh currently the text copy leaves a lot to be desired, luckily the tui is currently being rewritten and almost complete! once that is done I think this should be addressed much better

Is there an option to disable the current behavior?

don't think so

Please, no "much better", just leave me the exact system functionality my reflexes are honed to by decades of use

I am looking forward to the new version!

I am running opencode in a docker container. The current functionality prevents copy / paste from working as expected as opencode copies the text into the buffer of the docker container, not the host system.

does it work if u do (this allows you to test next version):
bun x opencode-ai@opentui

Awesome! I'll keep testing it out. Hot take is:

It's a bit slow to startup on my machine, which may be due to an mcp server initialization.

I can't copy anything off the home screen
The selection is cleared during redraws, which prevents copying from a session.
After a prompt finishes successfully, it returns to the home screen (see screenshot)
If I press escape to stop a prompt and try to select text then it pops up a "Message Actions" dialog asking if I want to revert or "Fork"

Message Actions

Home Screen

--

Can I run it from a branch in the git repo to get the latest merges?

Thanks

I think everytime u run the command it grabs the latest one, there is a snapshot on every push i think

still wip

@rekram1-node

@rekram1-node wrote:

@agladysh currently the text copy leaves a lot to be desired, luckily the tui is currently being rewritten and almost complete! once that is done I think this should be addressed much better

Is that still being worked on?
If it is already available, then why is this issue still open?

I'm in the same boat I use tmux and opencode's copy just doesn't work with tmux and I'm not going to change how tmux handles selecting so please just add a config to disable copy to clipboard on select.

@SQLServerIO

@SQLServerIO I created and am using this: https://github.com/CarloWood/opencode/tree/CW03-toggle-mouse-handling

with

{
  "disable_mouse": false,
  "keybinds": {
    "mouse_toggle": "f6"
  }
}

in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/opencode/tui.json

By pressing f6 you can toggle between mouse handling by your terminal or by opencode.

OPENCODE_EXPERIMENTAL_DISABLE_COPY_ON_SELECT=true and adapted keybindings in tui.json appear to be the current state, see #4996

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